YES MORE FUCKING SPAM PLEASE

On Sunday, July 10, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, one of the most beguiling and downright-fucking-great shows of the summer will take place.

Who:

AKRON/FAMILY
SIR RICHARD BISHOP
DOUBLE LEOPARDS

About:

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Akron/Family (http://www.akronfamily.com/) are a Brooklyn four-piece with releases on Michael Gira's Young God Records
(http://www.younggodrecords.com/prodtype.asp?PT_ID=83&strPageHistory=cat).
Gira, of course, should need no introduction but some people have faulty memories (this author included), so the bands Mr. Gira has led might ring a bell. Namely, the long-departed SWANS and the more recent ANGELS OF LIGHT band. In fact, Mr. Gira likes Akron/Family so
much he asked them to be the backing band on his ANGELS OF LIGHT recordings and tours. So let us let him describe them, shall we? Here goes:

"...I was completely won over –- stunned in fact –- by a show at Brooklyn's Pete's Candy Store, where the music veered from gentle American country folk to unabashed electronic noise to gathering and erupting crescendos, to extended skronk improvisations that
then suddenly cut to an LSD version of a backwoods barbershop quartet or a Louvin Brothers spiritual –- sometimes all within the course of one ridiculously long 'song' – ha ha!"

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Next we have Sir Richard Bishop (http://www.locustmusic.com/sirrichardbishop.html), and without taking anything away from anyone else, I have to say that I'm probably most excited to see his set that night. Those in the know know Sir Richard Bishop from his more famous trio, the SUN CITY GIRLS. Personally, the GIRLS are up there in my pantheon of
mind-numbingly heroic the-world-would-be-a-crappier-place-without musicians such as the late Albert Ayler, the late John Fahey, the late Charley Patton, the Stooges, the Fall, and very few others that are escaping my mind right now. Anyways, yeah, seriously heavy, as anyone who has seen them can attest. Sir Richard Bishop's solo work is fucking awesome, though usually more staggeringly
beautiful then confrontational. Anyway read this:

"...in the twilight hours of a shadow world sensed only by few, Bishop is a dazzling unaccompanied guitarist... Bishop rides a very tall horse through a surrealist's cowboy set that's 1 part bruit Peckinpah muscularity & 2 parts illuminated Jodorowskian
symbolism. a very strange place, indeed. Armed only with a single steel string wooden guitar, bare-knuckled Bishop fends off the horrors & dangers of the night with ease as he spits out glorious white robed arabesques, django inspired gypsy arcs, & latin terracotta flourishes like so many spinning tumbleweeds in a one horse town that is his alone."

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Last but certainly not least are Double Leopards (http://www.doubleleopards.org/), one of my faves to
crawl outta the Brooklyn woodwork, and yes, another band with beards (and I don't mean the ladies). Their "Halve Maen" double LP (on Eclipse) has been a slow, heavy burner on my turntable for, shit I guess it's some years now. Where does the time go? I dunno, but
the Leopards obliterate it. Not to be missed.

When:
Sunday, July 10 - 8 PM-ish

Where:
Glasshouse Gallery, 38 S. 1st Street (b/w Kent & Wythe)
Conveniently located only a five minute walk from the Bedford L stop and the Metropolitan G stop.

How Much:
$7, cheap!

Also, while I have your attention, another fantastic show appears just on the horizon:

Friday, August 12

SIGHTINGS
METALUX
MONOTRACT
(+ 1 act TBA)

location/time/price TBA so keep your lids open...

invaluable thx to mr. todd p